If there is a God...

Sometimes I wonder if i'm wrong. What if there IS a God? What would be his desires? What does he want from us?

The more I think about the question the more I realize the obvious answer is.....nothing.

An omnipotent being IS everything therefore he has no NEEDS or WANTS. A supreme being who manipulates the fabric of existence at will lacks nothing nor needs anything.

A God who desires worship, praise and submission is not a God at all. These are qualities of men. And men who believe in such a God are subconsciously glorifying the "flawed" qualities of men and applying them to an idea of a supreme being who thinks and acts like men.

If God does exist, he would be better than that. We just cannot fathom a being with unconditional virtues that does not desire or lack anything in his character.

One of the books that assisted me in losing my faith was Conversations with God: an uncommon dialogue by Neal Donald Walsch. The God in this book is exactly the God that I describe. A God who unconditionally loves his creation, who does not need or want anything, a God who is completely satisfied with his creation and his character. A God who understands that punishing and damning his creation into eternal fire and brimstone ultimately has no purpose since his creation is a part of him.

A God who loves unconditionally.

Even as an atheist, i would love for this to be true. Don't you?

There is a quote, i dont remember the source, that i believe explains the reason why men created God in their image:

"Laws were created by the powerful to limit and control the weak. Religion was invented by the weak to limit and control the powerful."

Someone posted it here on T|A, but I can't find it at the moment... You might like it also. I personally found myself thinking "if there is a god, this it what he should be." Its sounds like Conversations with God has a similar deity.